General Critics

Question 1

Adam - CS Lewis

Answer 1

Adam fell by uxoriousness

Question 2

Adam - Jonathan Whitfield

Answer 2

Adam’s speech is riddle with misogynistic remarks

Question 3

Eve - Gilbert and Gubar

Answer 3

Eve is a patriarchal ideal of womanhood deprived of her autonomous identity

Question 4

Eve - Simone De Beauvoir

Answer 4

Women throughout history have been depicted as a hindrance and a prison and are therefore depicted as secondary to man

Question 5

Satan - William Blake

Answer 5

Depicts Satan’s muscular power and says Milton is an advocate for the devils party

Question 6

Satan - Gavin Baddeley

Answer 6

Icon for the western cult of the individual

Question 7

Satan - William Hazzlitt

Answer 7

Satan is the most heroic subject that was ever chosen for a poem

Question 8

God - Douglas Bush

Answer 8

God is a tyrant whom it was glorious to rebel

Question 9

God - Milton

Answer 9

Justify the ways of god to man

Question 10

Justin Champion

Answer 10

Providential world

Question 11

Middleditch

Answer 11

Concerns himself with the barriers between humanity and the divine worship

Question 12

Rivers

Answer 12

Defines Christian truth

Question 13

Collier - Women

Answer 13

His portrayal of women vividly reflects the sexist attitudes of his time